Hi Caroline and Christopher.....If you got my notice about A Mothers Torment, I shouldn't have sent it on this place. I've gotten quite a few nasty answers back, but since I'd gotten a lot of book notices sent to me on BOok Network I thought the rules were the same. However, I found out quickly that it wasn't. You aren't allowed to send any info on your books on this group, so I had to apologise to those who sent me back emails.. I should have found out the rules first before sending anything, but I didn't so to anyone I sent it to , I'm sorry about that and it won't happen again on this group.

If I'd have gotten a notice about a new book out, I would just delete it if I wasn't interested, or sent a nice note letting them know it wasn't allowed. But not everyone does that. You can be sure I'll check next time I decide to do something like that again....

Thank you for inviting me to join your friends here Shirley. You're always in my thoughts and prayers.... Caroline

Hi David, Adam and Sara, great to have you as friends. Will be checking out your sites and books as well. I just got this one out, and trying to finish up one on ladies fifty and older called, There IS life After Fifty.... www.thereislifeafterfifty.com Want to have it ready for the Christmas holidays....it's a fun book after some of the more serious ones I've done and I'm enjoying writing it.....

Hi Shirley
Thanks for the warm welcome. Sounds like quite a life story.

Your experience is almost too awful to be contemplated. Thank you for inviting me to be your friend.

You sound like a straight shooter. I like that.

thanks for the add

great to meet each of you and hope to get to know you better. Trying to check out all the pages but it takes time to get to them all....I find them all very interesting and wish I was rich so I could read all your books....I wish you all success. By sharing information I'm sure we can all be more successful in marketing and selling our books....and so glad this group was started....

Thanks for the invite, and nice to meet another Shirley.

What an amazing story. I found it very humbling. The death penalty should be abolished - as it was over here in the UK.

Thanks for the invite. Your life journey has been incredible. You have a purpose in life and God has definitely opened the doors for you to speak your message. Keep writing. Keep speaking.

Hey Shirley. Thanks for the Friends invite.
I read your prologue and it had me in tears. x

It's pretty humbling to spend ones life inventing dramatic stories and then come across someone who has lived through real pain, injustice and loss. I really feel for your tragedy and I applaud the spirit with which you've survived and emerged, undefeated and unbowed.

Hi Maryann, there are so many innocent people in prison and on death row. I know people out there laugh as the innocent thing, but in the past couple of years they've found 120 people to be wrongly convicted on death row and have been freed. No telling how many innocent ons they already killed
You could still write a book on that inmates story and self publish it.......

Hi Penny, yes it was funny. We had to move south because of my fathers health so we drove out there, four cars with campers, my parents, my husband, and four kids, my brother and his family and my sister. We thought we'd settle down there but as soon as my father and me saw what it looked like and then my cousin had that huge pig, must have weighed a thousand pounds, and I saw her carrying a rifle like nothing was out of place, I said no way. So after a short visit, my husband and I drove back on insterstate 40 to we got to Knoxville where we rented a house and drove back to get the rest of the family. We settled there for a year and then my older brother got a job in Ashville NC and we all followed. They are all still there...and I of course had to move to the nashville area to be with my son jeff....it was quite an experience....

Hi Shirley,
I laughed out loud at your comments about New Mexico. I haven't yet had to carry a rifle to hang out clothes, nor do I have a pig, but I do have a tree growing in the house. A palm tree. For some reason it's quite the rage here and it came with the house. Actually, we've gotten almost too civilized in NM lately. Quite cosmopolitan, growing too fast. We've even got smog although most people deny it. I wish I'd heard about rifle-snakes-pig when I was writing the historical mystery set here during the Civil War. What a scene!

Thanks for the invite to join your circle. What an amazing story you have lived. I knew an inmate in Nebraska who was wrongly convicted. He was not on death row, but did serve 25 years for murders he didn't commit. His lawyer and the Innocence Project couldn't get the conviction overturned. We tried to do a true crime book about it, but it would not sell since the legal efforts kept failing. I still correspond with the man, and I believe he will be out on parole within a year or two.

Hi Kathy, what a beautiful kitty...is it yours. My brother has four cats and I'm allergic although they always love me and want to rub up against me for their loving. I'm a dog person myself and have two Australian Shepherds.....good to have you here. I agree the whole system needs an overhauling...

thanks Kevin, One of my first books is still used in some colleges called, Congregation of the Condemned and in it I intervnewed many experts on the subject, plus I had families of the condemned and families who lost someone to murder to tell what it did to their families....it's out of date now as so much has happened since I wrote it.

My life story, A Mothers Torment is my newest one, www.amotherstorment.com My first one was published by NEw Horizon back in the early 90's but they changed names, left out things I wanted left in there as it's all true and so now I brought it up date, left all the real names of everyone in it and published it myself. That way I know when people read it, they will know who did what, how they changed the testimony at my son's trial to get him convicted, and how testimony is not allowed that would show the jurors he was not guilty....

I was so naive when it all happened about the system and I thought during trials that all evidence was allowed to be said in front of the jury, but that's not the way the system works and evidence that may show someone to be innocent is often not allowed...

All my books are on my writers site at www.shirleydicks.net

The death penalty is a punishment meted out by fewer and fewer countries each year, and for good reason. It's barbaric, impossible to correct and there has never been any proof that it's any sort of deterrent.

Most of the countries that still hold on to it are arrogant, violent Axis of Evil-type nations, dictatorships and the like. If it actually was some sort of deterrent to violent crime, the U.S. wouldn't have one of the highest murder rates on the planet.

This asshole cowboy eye-for-an-eye evil has got to end. I'm going to have to check out your book.